Do pols stop eating steak during Lent?

During the 46 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, Catholics are forbidden from eating meat on Fridays and Ash Wednesday. That makes for eight days a year where Catholics cannot stroll into their favorite steakhouse and order a prime rib. But are steakhouses able to notice any effect?

“You can tell Fridays are generally busier, but during Lent business drops by about a third,” a source at downtown Washington, D.C., Morton’s The Steakhouse told the Washington Examiner. “It depends on the week, but there’s a noticeable drop.”